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Book reviewed in this articles: Sociology: The State of the Art Tom Bottomore, Stefan Nowak and Magdalena Sokolowska (eds) A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume 1: The Methodology of Theory W.G. Runciman Contemporary Political Philosophy: Radical Studies Keith Graham (ed.) Capital and Politics Roger King (ed.) Supremaey and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarehy of Work in the Early Labour Movement Mike Holbrook-Jones The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies: A Comparative Study of the Transformation of Work Organisation in Britain, Japan and the USA Craig R. Littler Blue-Collar Workers and Politics: A French Paradox Richard A. DeAngelis Contemporary French Political Parties David S. Bell (ed.) The Family and Industrial Society C.C. Harris White-Collar Work K. Prandy, A. Stewart and R.M. Blackburn Industrial Relations in Britain G.S. Bain (ed.) Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers Co-operative Judy Wajeman An Economic History of Women in America Julie A. Matthaei Racial and Ethnic Competition Michael Banton Labour and Raeism Annie Phizacklea and Robert Miles Racism and Migrant Labour Robert Miles Contemporary Education Policy John Ahier and Michael Flude (eds) Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 1980–1981 Alain Touraine, François Dubet, Michel Wievorka, Jan Strzelcki The Rites of Rulers Christel Lane Political Anatomy of the Body: Medical Knowledge in Britain in the Twentieth Century David Armstrong Class, Sports, and Social Development Richard Gruneau Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Walter J. Ong From Author to Reader Peter H. Mann     

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Book reviewed in this article: Modern Italian Social Theory Richard Bellamy Philosophy and the Human Sciences R.J. Anderson, John A. Hughes and W.W. Sharrock, Croom Helm Thinking about Social Thinking - The Philosophy of the Social Sciences Antony Flew The Nature of Historical Knowledge M. Stanford Theories of Social Change Raymond Boudon The Urbanisation of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanisation David Harvey Islam and the Destiny of Man G. Eaton, Allen and Unwin Turkey in the World Capitalist System H. Ramazanoglu (ed.) Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt J.E. Tucker Class, Politics and the Ecorwmy Stewart Clegg, Paul Boreham and Geoff Dow Social Mobility and Social Structure Bogdan Mach and Wlodzimierz Wesolowski, Routledge & Kegan Paul Research Methods for Elite Studies George Moyser and Margaret Wagestaffe (eds) Women's Work, Class, and the Urban Household: A Study of Shimla, North India Ursula Sharma Unemployment under Capitalism: the sociology of British and American Labour Markets D.N. Ashton Young Adults in the Labour Market D.N. Ashton and M. J. Maguire with the assistance of D. Bowden, P. Deliow, S. Kennedy, G. Stanley, G. Woodhead, and B. Jennings The Experierwe of Unemployment Sheila Allen, Alan Waton, Kate PurceU and Stephen Wood (eds) The Future of Democracy Norberto Bobbio Models of Democracy David Held Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: the Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens, Macmiilan New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change J.A. Beckford (ed.) Sport, Leisure and Social Relations, Sociological Review Monograph 33 John Home, David Jary and Alan Tomlinson (eds) Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate: Nukespeak Today Paul Chilton (ed.)     

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Books reviewed in this article: Victorian Values: Secularism and the size of families, J. A. Banks The Prison and The Factory, D. Melossi and M. Pavarini The Futility of Family Policy Gilbert Y. Steiner Social Contexts of Health, Illness and Patient Care Elliot G. Mishler et al. Children's Sexual Thinking Ronald and Juliette Goldman Realism: An Essay In Interpretation and Social Reality, David Levy Sociology Reinterpreted: An Essay on Method and Vocation, Peter L. Berger and Hansfried Kellner, 1982 Geography, Ideology and Social Concern, D. R. Stoddart (ed.) New Technology and Industrial Relations in Fleet Street, Roderick Martin Biography and Society: The Life History Appnach in the Social Sciences, Daniel Bertaux (ed.) Education in the Soviet Union: Policies and Institutions since Stalin, Mervyn Matthews Home, School and Leisure in the Soviet Union, Jenny Brine, Maureen Perrie and Andrew Sunon (eds) Historical Sociology, Philip Abrams The Dominant Ideology Thesis, Nicholas Abeicrombie Class, Structure and Knowledge, Nicholas Abercrombie Opium and the People: opiate use in nineteenth-century England, Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards Educational Subnormality, A Study in Decision Making, Sally Tomlinson A Sociology of Special Education, Sally Tomlinson Industrialization before Industrialization, P. Kreidte, H. Medick, J. Schlumbohm The German Working Class 1888–1933, Richard J. Evans (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Debates in Sociology: David Morgan and Liz Stanley (eds) The Ethics of Social Research: Roger Homan The Politics of Truth: from Marx to Foucault: Michèle Barrett Derrida: A Critical Reader: David Wood (ed.) Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture: Mike Gane The Two Sovereigns: Social Contradictions of European Modernity: Keith Tester Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History: E. Tonkin Other Histories: Kirsten Hastrup (ed.) Introducing Women's Studies: Feminist Theory and Practice: Diane Richardson and Victoria Robinson (eds) Gender and Bureaucracy: M. Savage and A. Witz, (eds) Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family: Ben Fine Of Mice and Women: Aspects of Female Aggression: Kaj Bjordkqvist and Pirkko Niemela (eds) Men In the Public Eye: Jeff Hearn Discovering Men: David Morgan Body Matters: Essays on the Sociology of the Body: Sue Scott and David Morgan, (eds) Youth and Inequality: Inge Bates and George Riseborough, (eds) Down On Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People: David A. Snow and Leon Anderson Race, the City, and the State: Malcolm Cross and Michael Keith, (eds) Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies: The Politics of Interpretation: Norman K. Denzin From Class Structure to the Politics of Pleasure; The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies: David Harris The Sports Process; A Comparative and Developmental Approach: E. Dunning, J. Maguire and R. Pearton (eds)     

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Books reviewed in this article: Essays on the History of British Sociological Research, M. Bulmer (ed.) Three Sociological Traditions, Randall Collins Macro Sociological Theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory Vol. I, H.J. Helle and S.N. Eisenstadt (eds) Micro Sociological theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory Vol. II, H.J. Helle and S.N. Eisenstadt (eds) Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West, John A. Hall Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State, William Buxton G.H. Mead. A Contemporary Re-Examination of his Thought, Hans Joas Language, Structure and Reproduction. An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein, Paul Atkinson Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organisation, Jonathan L. Gross and Steve Rayner Food in the Social Order, Mary Douglas (ed.) Classes, Erik Olin Wright Annals of the Labouring Poor, K.D.M. Snell Beyond Employment: Household, Gender and Subsistence, Nanneke Redclift and Enzo Mingione (eds.) Women's Working Lives: Patterns and Strategies, Susan Yeandle On Women, Sexuality and Love, Georg Simmel, translated and with an introduction by Guy Oakes A Woman's Place, An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890–1940, Elizabeth Roberts The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography. Volume 1: 1790–1900, John Burnett, David Vincent and David Mayall (eds) The Sociology of Law, Roman Tomasic Legal Systems and Social Systems, Adam Podgorecki, Christopher J. Whelan and Dinesh Khosla The Politics of the Police, Robert Reiner European Immigration Policy: A Comparative Study, Tomas Hammar (ed.) The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life, Roy Wallis The Need for Religious Certainty: A Sociological Study of Conventional Religion, Robert Towler No Pope of Rome: Militant Protestantism in Modern Scotland, Steve Bruce American Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 1, No 1, 1984, S.S. Nyang (ed.) The Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem, V. Azarya Islamic Sociology, I. Ba-Yunus and F. Ahmad Categories of Medieval Culture, A. J. Gurevich (translated by G.L. Campbell) Science for Social Scientists, John Law and Peter Lodge The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences, Richard Whitley Framing Science: The Making of a BBC Documentary, Roger Silverstone     

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Book Reviewed in this article The Sex Education Controversy. A Study of Politics, Education, and Morality by James Hottois and Neal A. Milner Citizens for Decency. Antipomography Crusades as Status Defense by Louis A. Zurcher, Jr., and R. George Kirkpatrick An Introduction to the Thought of Galvano Delia Volpe by John Fraser The Worker Directors: A Sociology of Participation by Peter Brannen, Eric Batstone, Derek Fatchett and Philip White Critique of Dialectical Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre Talcott Parsons and the Social Image of Man by Ken Menzies Rationality and the Social Sciences by S. I. Benn and G. W. Mortimer (eds.) Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology by Maurice Godelier (trans. Robert Brain) King Labour: The British Working Class 1850–1914 by David Kynaston Educational Aid and National Development by Nancy Parkinson.* Centrality and Cities by James Bird Essays in Labour History 1918–1939: Vol. 5 by Asa Briggs and John Saville (eds.) Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers by Raphael Samuel (ed.) Knowledge and Ideology in the Sociology of Education by Gerald Bernbaum Millenium and Charisma among Pathans: A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology by Akbar S. Ahmed The International Political System by F. S. Northedge New Rules of Sociological Methods by Anthony Giddens The Intelligentsia and the Intellectuals. Theory, Method and Case Study by Aleksander Gella (ed.) Social Class Differences in Britain: A Sourcebook by Ivan Reid     

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Book reviewed in this article: Hermeneutics and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding by Zygmunt Bauman Structure, Consciousness and History by Richard Harvey Brown and Stanford M. Lyman (eds.) The Politics of Legitimacy: Struggles in a Belfast Community by Frank Burton. City, Class and Power by Manuel Castells, translated by Elizabeth Lebas Australian Society. A Sociological Introduction by A. F. Davies, S. Encel and M. J. Berry (eds.) The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory by John P. Diggins Groups and Individuals: Explanations in Social Psychology by Willem Doise Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism by Andrew L. Friedman Illegitimacy, Sexuality and the Status of Women by Derek Gill Teachers, Ideology and Control: A Study in Urban Education by Gerald Grace The Liberation of Women: A Study in Patriarchy and Capitalism by Roberta Hamilton Renaissance Man by Agnes Heller The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden by W. Korpi Power and the State by Gary Littlejohn, Barry Smart, John Wakeford and Nina Yuval-Davies (eds. Marx: Sociology/Social Change/Capitalism by Donald McQuarie (ed) Marx's Theory of Politics by John M. Maguire The Rules of Disorder by P. Marsh, E. Rosser and R. Harré The Dilemmas of Contemporary Religion by David Martin A General Theory of Secularization by David Martin Tragic Realism and Modem Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Novel by John Orr Karl Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge by A. P. Simonds Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct by David Sudnow The Personnel Managers: A Study in the Sociology of Work and Employment by Tony J. Watson Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales by Glyn Williams (ed.) The American Ideology: Science, Technology and Organization as Modes of Rationality in Advanced Industrial Societies by H. T. Wilson The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions by William Julius Wilson     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Time and Social Theory Barbara Adam
Psychoanalysis and Social Theory: The Limits of Sociology Ian Craib
Civilization: Contents, Discontents, Malcontents and Other Essays in Social Theory Stanford M. Lyman
Ideology and Modern Culture John B. Thompson
The Methodology of Herbert Blumer: Critical Interpretation and Repair Kenneth Baugh Jr
The Fashioned Self Joanne Finkelstein
The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Reading Weber Keith Tribe (ed.), Routledge
The Sexuality of Organisation Jeff Hearn, Deborah L. Sheppard
The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott, (eds)
Battered Women as Survivors Lee Ann Hoff
Family, Economy and Community C.C. Harris, (ed.)
Enterprise Culture Russell Keat and Nicholas Abercrombie, (eds)
Making Their Way: Education, Training and the Labour Market in Canada and Britain David Ashton and Graham Lowe, (eds).
Images of Youth: Age, Class, and the Male Youth Problem 1880–1920 Harry Hendrick
Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World Patrick Murphy, John Williams and Eric Dunning
The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950, Volume 1, Regions and Communities F.M.L. Thompson, (ed.)
The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950, Volume 3, Social Agencies and Institutions F.M.L. Thompson, (ed.)
The Dark Side of Europe: The Extreme Right Today Geoffrey Harris
Resistance and Control in Pakistan A.D. Ahmed
The Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary Archie Brown, (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article:
S andra B. B urman and B arbara H arrell -B ond , (eds.), The Imposition of Law.
J. Paul Grayson (ed.) Class, State, Ideology and Change: Marxist Perspectives on Canada.
David Coburn, Carl D'Arcy, Peter New and George Torrence (eds.), Health and Canadian Society: Sociological Perspectives.
Charles C. Lemert (ed.), French Sociology: Rupture and Renewal Since 1968.
Derek L. Phillips, Equality, Justice and Rectification: An Exploration in Normative Sociology.
William H. Durham, Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Soccer War.
Randle W. Nelsen and David A. Nock (eds.), Reading, Writing, and Riches: Education and the Socio-Economic Order in North America.
Jeffrey G. Reitz, The Survival of Ethnic Groups.
Harold E. Pepinsky, Crime Control Strategies: An Introduction to the Study of Crime.
Michiel Horn, The League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Origins of the Democratic Left in Canada, 1930–1942.
Alvin Finkel, Business and Social Reform in the Thirties.
Suzanne Berger and Michael J. piore, Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies.
Paul I. Ahmed and George V. Coelho (eds,), Toward a New Definition of Health, Psychosocial Dimension.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England , Steven Shapin
The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body Richard Leppert
The Authority of the Consumer Russell Keat, Nigel Whiteley and Nicholas Abercrombie (eds)
Space, Place and Gender Doreen Massey
Ecological Feminism Karren J. Warren (ed.)
Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market Lisa Adkins
The Social and Political Economy of the Household Michael Anderson, Frank Bechofer and Jonathan Gershuny, (eds)
Privatization and Popular Capitalism Peter Saunders and Colin Harris
Educational Reform: A Critical and Post-Structural Approach Stephen J. Ball
Gendered Education: Sociological Reflections on Women, Teaching and Feminism Sandra Acker
The Importance of Disappointment Ian Craib
Sport and Leisure in Social Thought G. Jarvie and J. Maguire
The Sociology of Religion. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives Malcolm B. Hamilton
Raymond Williams: Making Connections John Eldridge and Lizzie Eldridge
Postmodernism and Social Inquiry David R. Dickens and Andrea Fontana, (eds)
The Poverty of Postmodernism John O'Neill
Insight and Solidarity. The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas William Rehg     

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Lisa Gilad, Ginger and Salt: Yemeni Jewish Women in an Israeli Town. Boulder D.W. Attwood and B.S. Baviskar (eds.), Who Shares? Co-operatives and Rural Development Francis Robinson (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and The Maldives Richard C. Davis (ed.), Rupert's Land: A Cultural Tapestry Tom Bottomore and Robert J. Brym (eds.), The Capitalist Class: An International Study Raymond Murphy, Social Closure: A theory of Monopolization and Exclusion Richard Flacks, Making History. Kevin D. Carriere and Richard V. Ericson, Crime Stoppers: A Study in the Organization of Community Policing. Dany Lacombe, Ideology and Public Policy: The Case Against Pornography Robert J. Brym with Bonnie J. Fox, From Culture to Power: The Sociology of English Canada. Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz (eds.), Social Structures: a network approach John Van Willigen, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, and Ann Mcelroy (eds.), Making Our Research Useful Grahame Clark, Prehistory at Cambridge and beyond Theresa R. Richardson, The Century of the Child: The Mental Hygiene Movement and Social Policy in the United States and Canada Anne Edwards, Regulation and Repression: The Study of Social Control Michael V. Angrosino, Documents of Interaction: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History in Social Science Perspective Michael Hechter, Principles of Group Solidarity Partrick Kierans, Glenn Drover and David Williams, Welfare and Worker Participation Mary Mccannery Gergen (ed.), Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge Richard V. Ericson, Patricia M. Baranek and Janet B.L. Chan, Visualizing Deviance: A Study of New Organizations Sheila Allen and Carol Wolkowitz, Homeworking: Myths and Realities Calvin W. Redekop and Samuel J. Steiner (eds.), Mennonite Identity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Robert A. Stebbins, Canadian Football: The View From The Helmet Anne Innis Dagg and Patricia J. Thompson, MisEducation: Women & Canadian Universities Cyril H. Levitt and William Shaffir, The Riots at Christie Pits     

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Books reviewed in this article: Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement, Olive Banks Small Entrepreneurs in Changing Europe: Towards a Research Agenda, Jeremy Boissevan The Entrepreneurial Middle Class, Richard Scase and Robert Goffee The Logic of Social Action. An Introduction to Sociological Analysis, Raymond Boudon The Unintended Consequences of Social Action, Raymond Boudon Thinking Photography, Victor Burgin (ed.) The Politics of Pop Festivals, Michael Clarke One For the Money: Politics and Popular Song, Dave Harker Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G. A. Cohen Cooking, Cuisine and Class, Jack Goody The German Social Democratic Party, W. L. Guttsman The Creation of World Poverty, An Alternative View to the Brandt Report, Teresa Hayter The Bureaucratic Leviathan–A Study in the Sociology of Communism, Maria Hirszowicz Culture and Society in Contemporary Europe: A Casebook, S. Hoffman and P. Kitromiledes (eds) Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Towards an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, Karin Knorr-Cetina and Aaron Cicourel, (eds) Johnsonville: Continuity and Change in a New Zealand Township, David Pearson An Island Polity: the archaeology of exploitation in Melos, Colin Renfrew and Malcolm Wagstaff (eds) On Becoming a Rock Musician, H. Stith Bennet The Population History of England 1541–1871: A Reconstruction E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield Policing the City, Rob Mawby Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science, H.M. Collins and T.J. Pinch Field Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual, Ed. Robert G. Burgess The History of Marxism: vol I, Marxism in Marx's Day, Ed. E. J. Hobsbawm Modern Interpretations of Marx, Tom Bottomore Ed. Hooligans or Rebels? An Oral History of Working-Class Childhood and Youth 1889–1939, Stephen Humphries Housing and Identity – cross-cultural Perspectives Ed. James S. Duncan.     

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Book reviewed in this articles: Concept Formation in Social Science William Outhwaite Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Volume Two. The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim J.C. Alexander The Individual and the Social Self: Unpublished Work of George Herbert Mead David L. Miller (ed.) The Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology Michael Mann (ed.) States and Societies David Held et al. (eds) Managing the Mind: A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth Century Britain Michael Donnelly Contemporary Britain Angus Stewart (ed.) Belonging: Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures Anthony P. Cohen (ed.) Consensus and Beyond: The Development of Labour Party Strategy since the Second World War Alan Warde Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control Pat Carlen Women's Religious Experience Pat Holden (ed.) The Social World of the Comprehensive School Glenn Turner Teaching about Race Relations: Problems and Effects L. Stenhouse et al. The Multicultural Curriculum James Lynch Race, Ethnicity and Power Donald G. Baker Approaches of Welfare Philip Bean and Stewart MacPherson, (eds) Living the Fishing Paul Thompson with Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History, Volume 2 Keith Hopkins The Survey Method: The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation Catherine Marsh     

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Book reviewed in this article: Social Theory and Modern Sociology Anthony Giddens A Reconstruction of Historical Materialism Jorge Larrain Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformations in Southern Sweden: 1750–1850 Allan Pred New Forms of Democracy David Held and Christopher Pollitt, (eds) Women and European Politics Joni Lovenduski Women of Europe Elizabeth Vallance and Elizabeth Davies Becoming a Feminist: The Social Origins of First Wave Feminism Olive Banks Justice for Women? Family, Court and Social Control Mary Eaton Women, Violence and Social Control Jalna Hammer and Mary Maynard The British Worker Question: A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing Theo Nichols Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Enemy Within: Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984–5 R. Samuel, B. Bloomfield and G. Boanas (eds) Thurcroft: a Village and the Miners' Strike The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Loss without Limit M. Adeney and J. Lloyd German White-Collar Workers and the Rise of Hitler Hans Speier Democracy and Control in the Workplace Ed Davis and Russell Lansbury Towards a New Industrial Democracy: Workers' Participation in Industry Michael Poole, Routledge & Kegan Paul Unemployment: Personal and Social Consequences Stephen Fineman (ed.) Unions, Unemployment and Innovation Eric Batstone and Stephen Gourlay Public Acceptance of New Technologies. An International Review Roger Williams and Stephen Mills (eds) Education for Some: The Educational and Vocational Experiences of 15–18 Year Old Members of Minority Ethnic Origins John Eggleston, David Dunn, Mahdu Anjali The Power of Psychiatry Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose (eds) Love as Passion: the Codification of Intimacy Niklas Luhmann Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning All Work and No Play? The Sociology of Women and Leisure Rosemary Deem The Pub and the People A Worktown Study by Mass Observation Ageing and Social Policy C. Phillipson and A. Walker (eds)     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Research Relationship G. Clare Wenger, (ed.) Classic Disputes in Sociology R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes and W. W. Sharrock (eds) Social Theory Today Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner (eds) Sociology and Social Welfare Michael Sullivan, Allen and Unwin Comparative Anthropology Ladislav Holy, (ed.) Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective Louis Dumont The Imaginary Institution of Society Cornelius Castoriadis, trans. Property Andrew Reeve, Macmillan, Basingstoke Myths of the Chicago School of Sociology Lee Harvey Towards A Critique of Foucault Mike Gane (ed.) Family Life in Western Societies J. E. Goldthorpe Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History David Levine Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850 Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall Love in America: Gender and Self Development Francesca M. Cancian Neighbours: The Work of Philip Abrams Martin Bulmer (ed.) Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City Gabriel Herman Medical Power and Social Knowledge Bryan S. Turner Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain Greta Jones, Croom Helm From Farming to Biotechnology. A Theory of Agro-Industrial Development David Goodman, Bernardo Sorj and John Wilkinson Workplace Industrial Relations and Technical Change W. W. Daniel Managing the Factory P. K. Edwards The Politics of the UCS Work-in John Foster and Charles Woolfson Redundancy and Recession in South Wales C. C. Harris Recession, Crime and Punishment Steven Box Crisis and Transition: Polish Society in the 1980s Jadwiga Koralewicz, Ireneusz Bialecki and Margaret Watson (eds) The Roots of Football Hooliganism Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy and John Williams, Routledge and Kegan Paul Music and Society; The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception R. Leppert and S. McClary (eds)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Introduction to the Sociology of Developing Societies Hamza Alavi and Teodor Shanin (eds) Sub-Saharan Africa Chris Allen and Gavin Williams (eds) T.S. Kuhn and Social Science, Barry Barnes. Art Worlds Howard S. Becker Black Youth in Crisis Ernest Cashmore and Barry Troyna (eds) English Country Houses and Landed Estates Heather A. Clemenson In the Active Voice Mary Douglas The Civilized Body P. E. S. Freund Classes, Power and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates Anthony Giddens and David Held (eds) Sport, Culture and Ideology J. Hargreaves (ed.) Social Mobility Anthony Heath Social Mobility: a Study of Social Control and Insatiability Earl Hopper Social Relations and Human Attributes P. Hirst and P. Woolley The Development of Underdevelopment in China: A Symposium Philip C. C. Huang (ed.) A Third World Proletariat? Peter Lloyd The Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation J. Lovenduski and J. Hills (eds) Max Weber and Karl Marx Karl Löwith Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock Work and Retirement Stanley Parker The Transition from School to Work Michael West and Peggy Newton (eds)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach Andrew Sayer The Perspective of Ethnomethodology Douglas Benson and John A. Hughes Soeiology, Ethnomethodology and Experience Mary F. Rogers The Social Dimension: European Developments in Social Psychology Henri Tajfel (ed.) Rethinking Cognitive Theory Jeff Coulter Beyond the State? Dominant Theories and Socialist Strategies Boris Frankel War, State and Society M. Shaw (ed.) Prisons and the Process of Justice Andrew Rutherford Regulating Society: Marginality and Social Control in Historical Perspeetive Ephraim H. Mizruchi Terrorism in Northern Ireland Alfred McClung Lee Classes in Contemporary Japan Rob Steven School Leavers and their Prospects: Youth and the Labour Market in the 1980s Kenneth Roberts Unfairly Structured Cities Blair Badcock Urban Social Research: Problems and Prospects (Sociological Review Monograph: 30) 169 Valdo Pons and Ray Francis (eds) Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 2 I.H. Simpson and R.L. Simpson (eds) Work and Family: Changing Roles of Men and Women P. Voydanoff (ed.) Women and Education S. Acker, J. Megarry, S. Nisbet and E. Hoyle (eds) Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behaviour in Conversation Geoffrey Beattie British Social Attitudes. The 1984 Report R. Jowell and C. Airey (eds) The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain 1930-1939 Jeffrey Richards     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists Bennett M. Berger (ed.)
Post-Marxist Alternatives: the Construction of Social Orders Nicos P. Mouzelis
Surveillance, Power and Modernity Christopher Dandeker
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity Bryan S. Turner (ed.)
Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists Elizabeth Grosz
Sociobiology and the Social Sciences Robert W. Bell and Nancy J., Bell (eds)
The Dilemma of Qualitative Method: Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition Martyn Hammersley
Collective Remembering David Middleton and Derek Edwards (eds)
Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events D. Handelman
Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution to Popular Music P. Oliver (ed.)
The Unprincipled Society: New Demands and Old Politics David Marquand
New Forms of Ownership: Management and Employment G. Jenkins and M. Poole (eds)
Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry Richard Whipp
Social Work in an Enterprise Society Robert Pinker
The Politics and Morality of Deviance: Moral Panics , Drug Abuse
Readings in Medical Sociology S. Cunningham-Burley and N.P. McKeganey (eds)
New Directions in the Sociology of Health Pamela Abbott and Geoff Payne (eds)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Prospects for the National Health by Paul Atkinson et al. (eds.) Beyond the Sociology of Conflict by David Binns The Working Class in the Labour Market by R. M. Blackburn & Michael Mann Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England Class and Hierarchy: The Social Meaning of Occupations by Anthony P. M. Coxon & Charles L. Jones Jamaica Farewell: Jamaican Migrants in London by Nancy Foner Language and control by Roger Fowler et al Language as ideology by Gunther Kress and Robert Hodge Gender Advertisements by Erving Goffman The Political Economy of the Welfare State by Ian Gough Beyond Separation: Further Studies of Children in Hospital by David Hall and Margaret Stacey (eds.) The Sociological Movement in Law by Alan Hunt White-Collar Unionism: The Rebellious Salariat by Clive Jenkins and Barrie Sherman Bureaucracy: The Career of a Concept, by E. Kamenka and M. Krygier (eds.) Western Sociologists on Indian Society by G. R. Madan Science and the Sociology of Knowledge by Michael Mulkay The Idea of Welfare by Robert Pinker The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction by Gianfranco Poggi Education in Rural America: A Reassesment of Conventional Wisdom by J. P. Sher, (ed.) G. D. H. Cole and Socialist Democracy, by A. W. Wright